Nurse Manager Operating Room

Position Summary

This position provides supervision and support of clinical operations, staff, and encompasses all general surgery and procedural Preop/PACU patients. Manages finances and personnel to ensure appropriate allocation of resources in providing quality patient care.

Essential Functions

• Provides and facilitates patient-centered care and patient flow and serves as a resource to employees for clinical and managerial support.
• Promotes and participates in interdisciplinary patient care planning and education.
• Affirms appropriate level of care for patient population.
• Elevates utilization or care plan issues to leadership as appropriate.
• Ensures effective use of resources, equipment and supplies.
• Identifies and adjusts staffing levels needed to meet changing workload projections and provide safe, quality patient care.
• Ensures smooth and efficient patient care management.
• Aids in the development of budgets and ensures that targets are met.
• Serves as a resource to patients, families, physicians, and staff by interpreting policies and facilitating care.
• Provides departmental leadership by demonstrating effective communication skills, problem-solving, and proactive conflict resolution to internal and external customers in situations.
• Hires, leads, mentors, develops, and evaluates staff in a manner that promotes engagement, productivity, and ensures competencies.
• Mentors staff to increase clinical skills, critical thinking, problem-solving skills, and promote retention.
• Conducts individual and team goal setting, performance planning, and evaluation.
• Serves as a resource to patients, families, physicians, and staff by interpreting policies and facilitating care.
• Supports change and participates in the development, interpretation, implementation, and evaluation of process improvement and quality management activities.
• Works with staff to make necessary changes.
• Performs all functions according to established policies, procedures, regulatory and accreditation requirements, as well as applicable professional standards.
• Provides all customers with an excellent service experience by consistently demonstrating our core and leader behaviors each and every day.

Minimum Qualifications

• Must possess a strong knowledge and understanding of clinical care as normally obtained through the completion of an associate’s degree in nursing, health care or related field.
• Must possess a current, valid RN license in state of practice.
• BLS and ACLS required. PALS certification required within 90 days of start date.
• Must possess a strong knowledge of clinical operations as normally demonstrated through 1-2 years of experience with relevant to patient population.
• Must have the ability to develop and maintain working relationships with physicians, staff, patients, and families.
• Knowledge of the requirements of applicable regulatory and accreditation agencies.
• Excellent human relations and communication skills.

Additional Related Education and/or Experience Preferred

• Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Management or supervisory experience preferred.